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Does a low-fat diet increase triglycerides?
It’s easy to assume that a low-fat diet is the healthy way to go, especially since a diet low in saturated and trans fat was recommended by government agencies back in the 1980s. But in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune story, which looked at the...
Tags: Nutrition, Chicago Tribune, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Heart Disease
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Hungry for reliable information
One of the things that was clear from reaction to this week's front page story on good nutrition (and how little it is taught in medical schools) is that readers are hungry for clear, reliable information. The story was shared on social media hundreds...
Tags: Nutrition, Education, Colleges and Universities, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists
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Prescription for nutrition
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack or stroke. One provocative new study found that a...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, The Pennsylvania State University, Politics, Consumer Goods Industries, Heart Disease
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Mediterranean diet over low fat? Well, at least it's more fun
It sounds like a happy hour dream: Now, scientists say, you can have your wine and eat the nuts that go with it, and be healthier in the bargain. A rigorous new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine should finally put to rest any doubts...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Wines, The New York Times, Mediterranean Diet, Los Angeles Times
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5 Questions: Dr. Dean Ornish on the power of mindful choices
For more than three decades, Dr. Dean Ornish has been talking about the power individuals have to affect their health, even to the extent of reversing heart disease by changing the way they eat and behave. His prescription for sick people is radical, as...
Tags: Heart Attack, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, Heart Disease
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Weight loss planned for 2013? Some surveys and predictions
So here many of us are, pledging as we have before to drop some pounds, get into shape and just generally eat better. Maybe this year! How are we going to go about it -- and keep the weight off over the long haul? Surprise: Our choices may not...
Tags: Medifast Incorporated, Consumers, Weight, The Huffington Post, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Jean Harris dies at 89; killer of 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor
Jean Harris, the onetime headmistress of an elite girls' school whose trial in the fatal 1980 shooting of the celebrity diet doctor who jilted her generated front-page headlines and national debates about whether she was a feminist martyr or vengeful...
Tags: Suicide, Heart Attack, Authors, Trials, Ellen Burstyn
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An attack on free speech
Washington Post Writers GroupRALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina is giving Steve Cooksey some choices. He can stop speaking. Or he can get a Ph.D. in nutrition, or a medical degree, or a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and then pass an examination after completing a 900-hour...Tags: Nutrition, Crime, Law and Justice, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Asthma
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Healthy lifestyle key to healthy aging
September is Healthy Aging Month, an annual observance month designed to focus national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. Healthy aging is a hot topic for baby boomers everywhere. Whether you’re concerned about weight gain, sex...
Tags: Nutrition, Calcium, WebMD Corporation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health Treatments
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It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie — or is it? Maybe not, a small study has found. Once the pounds are shed, the proportions of carbohydrates, proteins and fats you chow down on may determine whether you keep the weight off — or slowly but...
Tags: Nutrition, Physiology, Overweight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hydrocortisone
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The keys to maintaining your weight loss
Some good news on the weight-loss front. Even if you've been a total flop before — regaining all the weight you lost and 10 pounds on top of that — you can be a dieting success.
"There's hope for all those people who have tried to lose weight...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Weight, Weight Loss, Ellen Warren
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Health Notes: Exercise keeps you young! New campaign urges physical activity for health
New Go4Life campaign focuses on fitness for older adults -- for slower aging and better health
Introduced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Go4Life campaign encourages sedentary older adults to reap health benefits by making physical...Tags: Cancer, Elections, Health, Mark Udall, Physical Fitness and Exercise
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Mar 26, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 28, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Sep 4, 2012
|Story| Winchester Sun
Jun 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 4, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 29, 2011
|Story| Daily Press
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